Nuts! - My Delicious Almond Slice recipe

For the pastry:

8 ounces flour 

1 egg 

2 oz castor sugar (in the United Kingdom, this is a more refined sugar than ordinary white granulated sugar) 

5 ounces butter 

Make the pastry - combine all ingredients together (we use my food processor to whiz up pasta, but it will work ok made by hand) This is a sweet pastry and requires no additional liquid. 

Roll out into a rectangle and place in a greased tray - you need an approximately 8 "x 12" with a bit depth, because the almond paste is continuously until it is baked. 

Cover bottom of pastry with jam - we use raspberry, blackcurrant or Damson, all we have in store. Any jam would. 

For almond filling:

8 ounces chopped almonds 

4 oz castor sugar 

4 oz icing sugar 

3 eggs 

teaspoon almond essence 

1 cup milk 

Combine all these ingredients into a mixing bowl - pour into the pastry base. Scatter some flaked almonds on top of mixture. 

Bake in a medium hot oven until golden brown. 

Let it cool down and then cut into fingers. You should have 16 fingers, at least from this recipe. Store in a tin - kept cool. 

Arch - we can taste the taste right now! That is one of my favorite recipes. If you prefer, you can make it a Bake well tart by boiling in a circular pie dish instead of a tray-bake tray. 

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